Supercomputer

Supercomputers, distinguished from ordinary computers by their ability to process vast amounts of data, are instrumental in solving complex scientific problems. They consist of interconnected nodes and require extensive infrastructure and expertise for operation, exemplified by facilities like the Argonne National Laboratory, which uses its supercomputers for groundbreaking research.What Is Supercomputing?There are computers. And then there are supercomputers.Most personal and work computers are powerful enough to perform…

Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring material on Earth, but a supercomputer just modeled stuff that’s even harder. Called a ‘super-diamond,’ the theoretical material could exist beyond our planet—and maybe, one day, be created here on Earth.Do We Have to Send Humans to Mars for Exploration?Like normal diamonds, super-diamonds are made from carbon atoms. This specific phase of carbon, composed of eight atoms, should be stable at ambient conditions. In other words, it could exist in an Earth laboratory.The specific…

Two of the biggest winners over the past year — chipmaker Nvidia and pharmaceutical drug maker Novo Nordisk — are joining forces to set up one the world’s most advanced AI supercomputers in Denmark.  Named Gefion, after the Norse goddess of ploughing and abundance, and built by Atos Group subsidiary Eviden, it will be based on the Nvidia DGX SuperPod architecture. Gefion will feature over 1,500 of Nvidia’s H100 Tensor Core GPUs and deliver six exaflops of FP8 AI performance. Furthermore, it…

Supercomputer simulations predicting the synthesis pathways for the elusive BC8 “super-diamond”, involving shock compressions of diamond precursor, inspire ongoing Discovery Science experiments at NIF. Credit: Mark Meamber/LLNLResearchers are on a quest to synthesize BC8, a carbon structure predicted to be tougher than diamond, using insights from advanced simulations and experimental efforts. This material, theoretically prevalent in the extreme pressures of exoplanets, remains a scientific mystery with promising…

An automotive megatrend: A central supercomputer controls all car components and can be updated via a Wi-Fi connection. Credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Modern cars are packed full of electronics. Managing all the computers and assistance systems is a complex task, and the cable harnesses increase the weight of the car. In the joint research project CeCaS, Fraunhofer researchers are working on a systems architecture based on…

Internal waves are generated when tides beneath the surface pass over seamounts, continental slopes, ridges, or other rough seafloor surfaces. Here they can be seen in Indonesia’s Lombok Strait as a result of the water’s reflection of sunlight. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC Waves don't take place just on the ocean's surface. Underneath the crests and troughs that we can see from above are…

This CyberShake Study 22.12 seismic hazard model shows the Southern California regions, depicted in reds and yellows, expected to experience strong ground motions at least once in the next 2,500 years. Credit: Statewide California Earthquake Center Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, are unraveling the mysteries of earthquakes by using physics-based computational models running on…

Yoshua Bengio has been thinking for a while about what happens if the technology he helped pioneer becomes smarter than humans — and escapes our control."We could basically create new types of living entities that have their own preservation as a more important value than our own," he said.Entities, he worries, that, with the aid of robots, could one day "roam the planet."But Bengio, who is scientific director of Mila, the Montreal-based artificial intelligence institute he founded in 1993, is increasingly contemplating…

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility – the same weekly newsletter you’ve been reading, but with a new name and a few changes. As I mentioned last week, this is still your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation! This week, read about how Mercedes mistakenly exposed its source code, the…

Researchers used the Frontera supercomputer to create PRIYA simulations, analyzing quasar light to enhance understanding of the universe’s structure and refine key cosmological parameters, challenging previous cosmological models.The simulations of the Lyman-𝛼 forest spectral data conducted by the PRIYA supercomputer, the largest-ever of their kind, illustrate the large-scale structure of the universe.Distant quasars shine like cosmic beacons, producing the brightest light in the universe. These quasars outshine even our…